Deirdre Mclaughlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3801206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deirdre Mclaughlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deirdre |
| FAMILY NAME | Mclaughlin |
| SIGNATURE | MCLAUGHLIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3493-0121 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Assessing the Diagnostic Accuracy of Physicians for Home Death Certification in Shanghai: Application of SmartVA
Approximately 30% of deaths in Shanghai either occur at home or are not medically attended. The recorded cause of death (COD) in these cases may not be reliable. We applied the Smart Verbal Autopsy (VA) tool to assign the COD for a representative sample of home deaths certified by 16 community health centers (CHCs) from three districts in Shanghai, from December 2017 to June 2018. The results were compared with diagnoses from routine practice to …
Validation of physician certified verbal autopsy using conventional autopsy: A large study of adult non-external causes of death in a metropolitan area in Brazil
The PCVA was efficient in attributing some causes individually and proved effective in estimating the CSMF, which indicates that the method is useful to establish public health priorities
Improving the Policy Utility of Cause of Death Statistics in Sri Lanka: An Empirical Investigation of Causes of Out-of-Hospital Deaths Using Automated Verbal Autopsy Methods
Background: Setting public health policies and effectively monitoring the impact of health interventions requires accurate, timely and complete cause of death (CoD) data for populations. In Sri Lanka, almost half of all deaths occur outside hospitals, with questionable diagnostic accuracy, thus limiting their information content for policy. Objectives: To ascertain whether SmartVA is applicable in improving the specificity of cause of death data …
Generating cause of death information to inform health policy: Implementation of an automated verbal autopsy system in the Solomon Islands
NCDs are the leading cause of adult deaths in the Solomon Islands. Automated VA methods are an effective means of generating reliable COD information for community deaths in the Solomon Islands and should be routinely incorporated into the national mortality surveillance system
Mortality surveillance and verbal autopsy strategies: Experiences, challenges and lessons learnt in Papua New Guinea
Full notification of deaths and compilation of good quality cause of death data are core, sequential and essential components of a functional civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system. In collaboration with the Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG), trial mortality surveillance activities were established at sites in Alotau District in Milne Bay Province, Tambul-Nebilyer District in Western Highlands Province and Talasea District in We…
Changes in housing among older women: Latent class analysis of housing patterns in older Australian women
Scant research exists on the patterns of changes in older women’s housing, and whether and when women transition into residential aged care (RAC). This study aimed to identify groups of women with different housing patterns (latent classes) over time, with a secondary aim to describe socio-demographic and health characteristics of women in each class. We analysed linked data for 9575 women born 1921–1926 from the Australian Longitudinal Study of …
Longitudinal Patterns of Breast Cancer Screening: Mammography, Clinical, and Breast Self-Examinations in a Rural and Urban Setting
Impact of behavioural risk factors on death within 10 years for women and men in their 70s: Absolute risk charts
These absolute risk charts provide a tool for understanding the combined effects of behavioural risk factors for death among older people
Women who smoke like men die like men who smoke: Findings from two Australian cohort studies
The data provide strong evidence that men and women with similar patterns of smoking experience similar rates of death due to smoking
Factors which enhance or inhibit social support: A mixed-methods analysis of social networks in older women
Evidence suggests that people with strong social support have lower mortality and morbidity and better self-rated health in later life, but few studies have used longitudinal data to examine the factors that inhibit or enhance social support. This study used both quantitative data and qualitative texts to explore older women's social networks. The mixed-methods design drew participants from the 1921–26 cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study …
Gender Differences in Social Network Size and Satisfaction in Adults in Their 70s
Strong social support is associated with lower mortality and morbidity and better self-rated health in later life. The aim of this study was to compare social network size and satisfaction in men ( N = 2589) and women ( n = 3152), aged 72-78 years. Women reported significantly larger networks (Difference 1.36, 95% CI 0.89, 1.83) than men. However, being separated, divorced or single had a significantly greater impact on men's social networks (Dif…
Passing on Our Culture: How Older Australians from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds Contribute to Civil Society
Doing It from Your Heart: The Role of Older Women as Informal Volunteers
This paper explores the contributions made by older women to the community as informal volunteers. It argues that ageing policy is not gender neutral and tends to ignore the contributions made by women outside paid work. As well as being ignored in policy, women's unpaid roles have been denigrated by some feminist commentators, who suggest that these roles subordinate the position of women. The aim of the present paper is to explore the lived exp…
Lots of little kindnesses’: Valuing the role of older Australians as informal volunteers in the community
This paper describes the ways in which older people contribute to their communities and families as informal volunteers. It challenges current ways of thinking that assign an economic value to the productive activities undertaken by older people. Using qualitative data from a study of older people resident in Queensland, Australia, the paper explores the ways that older people contribute to their families and to the community and the outcomes ass…
Gender Differences in Social Network Size and Satisfaction in Adults in Their 70s
Strong social support is associated with lower mortality and morbidity and better self-rated health in later life. The aim of this study was to compare social network size and satisfaction in men ( N = 2589) and women ( n = 3152), aged 72-78 years. Women reported significantly larger networks (Difference 1.36, 95% CI 0.89, 1.83) than men. However, being separated, divorced or single had a significantly greater impact on men's social networks (Dif…
Passing on Our Culture: How Older Australians from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds Contribute to Civil Society
Lots of little kindnesses’: Valuing the role of older Australians as informal volunteers in the community
This paper describes the ways in which older people contribute to their communities and families as informal volunteers. It challenges current ways of thinking that assign an economic value to the productive activities undertaken by older people. Using qualitative data from a study of older people resident in Queensland, Australia, the paper explores the ways that older people contribute to their families and to the community and the outcomes ass…
Changes in housing among older women: Latent class analysis of housing patterns in older Australian women
Scant research exists on the patterns of changes in older women’s housing, and whether and when women transition into residential aged care (RAC). This study aimed to identify groups of women with different housing patterns (latent classes) over time, with a secondary aim to describe socio-demographic and health characteristics of women in each class. We analysed linked data for 9575 women born 1921–1926 from the Australian Longitudinal Study of …
Lots of little kindnesses’: Valuing the role of older Australians as informal volunteers in the community
This paper describes the ways in which older people contribute to their communities and families as informal volunteers. It challenges current ways of thinking that assign an economic value to the productive activities undertaken by older people. Using qualitative data from a study of older people resident in Queensland, Australia, the paper explores the ways that older people contribute to their families and to the community and the outcomes ass…
Doing It from Your Heart: The Role of Older Women as Informal Volunteers
This paper explores the contributions made by older women to the community as informal volunteers. It argues that ageing policy is not gender neutral and tends to ignore the contributions made by women outside paid work. As well as being ignored in policy, women's unpaid roles have been denigrated by some feminist commentators, who suggest that these roles subordinate the position of women. The aim of the present paper is to explore the lived exp…
Passing on Our Culture: How Older Australians from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds Contribute to Civil Society
Gender Differences in Social Network Size and Satisfaction in Adults in Their 70s
Strong social support is associated with lower mortality and morbidity and better self-rated health in later life. The aim of this study was to compare social network size and satisfaction in men ( N = 2589) and women ( n = 3152), aged 72-78 years. Women reported significantly larger networks (Difference 1.36, 95% CI 0.89, 1.83) than men. However, being separated, divorced or single had a significantly greater impact on men's social networks (Dif…
Women who smoke like men die like men who smoke: Findings from two Australian cohort studies
The data provide strong evidence that men and women with similar patterns of smoking experience similar rates of death due to smoking
Factors which enhance or inhibit social support: A mixed-methods analysis of social networks in older women
Evidence suggests that people with strong social support have lower mortality and morbidity and better self-rated health in later life, but few studies have used longitudinal data to examine the factors that inhibit or enhance social support. This study used both quantitative data and qualitative texts to explore older women's social networks. The mixed-methods design drew participants from the 1921–26 cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study …
Impact of behavioural risk factors on death within 10 years for women and men in their 70s: Absolute risk charts
These absolute risk charts provide a tool for understanding the combined effects of behavioural risk factors for death among older people
Longitudinal Patterns of Breast Cancer Screening: Mammography, Clinical, and Breast Self-Examinations in a Rural and Urban Setting
Changes in housing among older women: Latent class analysis of housing patterns in older Australian women
Scant research exists on the patterns of changes in older women’s housing, and whether and when women transition into residential aged care (RAC). This study aimed to identify groups of women with different housing patterns (latent classes) over time, with a secondary aim to describe socio-demographic and health characteristics of women in each class. We analysed linked data for 9575 women born 1921–1926 from the Australian Longitudinal Study of …
Mortality surveillance and verbal autopsy strategies: Experiences, challenges and lessons learnt in Papua New Guinea
Full notification of deaths and compilation of good quality cause of death data are core, sequential and essential components of a functional civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system. In collaboration with the Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG), trial mortality surveillance activities were established at sites in Alotau District in Milne Bay Province, Tambul-Nebilyer District in Western Highlands Province and Talasea District in We…
Improving the Policy Utility of Cause of Death Statistics in Sri Lanka: An Empirical Investigation of Causes of Out-of-Hospital Deaths Using Automated Verbal Autopsy Methods
Background: Setting public health policies and effectively monitoring the impact of health interventions requires accurate, timely and complete cause of death (CoD) data for populations. In Sri Lanka, almost half of all deaths occur outside hospitals, with questionable diagnostic accuracy, thus limiting their information content for policy. Objectives: To ascertain whether SmartVA is applicable in improving the specificity of cause of death data …
Generating cause of death information to inform health policy: Implementation of an automated verbal autopsy system in the Solomon Islands
NCDs are the leading cause of adult deaths in the Solomon Islands. Automated VA methods are an effective means of generating reliable COD information for community deaths in the Solomon Islands and should be routinely incorporated into the national mortality surveillance system
Assessing the Diagnostic Accuracy of Physicians for Home Death Certification in Shanghai: Application of SmartVA
Approximately 30% of deaths in Shanghai either occur at home or are not medically attended. The recorded cause of death (COD) in these cases may not be reliable. We applied the Smart Verbal Autopsy (VA) tool to assign the COD for a representative sample of home deaths certified by 16 community health centers (CHCs) from three districts in Shanghai, from December 2017 to June 2018. The results were compared with diagnoses from routine practice to …
Validation of physician certified verbal autopsy using conventional autopsy: A large study of adult non-external causes of death in a metropolitan area in Brazil
The PCVA was efficient in attributing some causes individually and proved effective in estimating the CSMF, which indicates that the method is useful to establish public health priorities
Medicine (14 works) · Gerontology (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Demography (6 works) · Internal Medicine (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Public health (5 works) · Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes (4 works)